Curator Onboarding
Professional Traders, Hedge Funds and Quant Teams
Neutral Trade invites systematic trading teams to run strategies as Neutral Strategy Vaults: you trade, we bring the capital, the infrastructure, and the operations. Strategy IP stays entirely with you.
Who Should Apply
We look for teams whose strategies meet these baseline requirements:
Sharpe ratio of 1.5 or higher on live performance (exceptions possible for strategies with genuine decorrelation from our existing vaults)
Low market bias — persistently directional strategies are not suitable
Fully systematic execution — no discretionary trading
Daily or faster signal frequency
Verifiable live track record — daily PnL with timestamps and trade logs; backtests alone are not sufficient
We often prefer a genuinely uncorrelated niche strategy over a higher-capacity strategy that overlaps with our existing line-up. The full evaluation criteria, scoring weights, and decision thresholds are on the Curator Selection page.
What You Get
One SMA, many investors — manage a single account; Neutral Trade aggregates depositor capital and handles per-wallet accounting.
Automated fee distribution — performance fees calculated per wallet with individual high-water marks, paid out automatically.
Broad venue access — Binance, OKX, Bybit, Gate, KuCoin, Bitget, Hyperliquid, Lighter, Kraken, and Deribit.
Your IP stays yours — no code disclosure, no replication commitments, no exclusivity, no non-compete.
Full operational support — investor relations, technical setup, marketing, and a proprietary margin-management system for automated capital rebalancing.
The Onboarding Process
Step 1 — Apply
Fill in the Google form, message the team on Telegram, or email partnerships@neutral.trade with a description of your strategy and your track record. You will receive our standardized Due Diligence Questionnaire (DDQ) covering strategy, performance, risk framework, operations, legal, and commercial terms.
Step 2 — Due Diligence Review
We score your team against the six-dimension framework described in Curator Selection. Expect us to ask for daily PnL with timestamps, historical trade logs, and — for larger allocations — read-only exchange API access to verify performance. Reference checks are part of this stage.
Step 3 — Legal & Compliance (weeks 1–2 after approval)
Execute NDA
Complete KYC/AML verification
Execute the curator agreement, including fee terms
Agree reporting obligations and cadence
Step 4 — Technical Integration (weeks 2–3)
API connectivity setup (read-only monitoring access first)
Alignment on reporting formats
Integration with Neutral Trade's risk monitoring
Dedicated communication channel with the NT team
Training on Neutral Trade's vault tools
Step 5 — Pilot Period (weeks 4–8)
Your vault launches with an initial allocation under a pilot protocol:
Daily monitoring against your stated risk limits
Weekly review calls
Performance tracked against the expectations set during due diligence
Step 6 — Full Deployment
After a successful pilot, the allocation scales, monitoring transitions to the standard ongoing protocol, and reviews move to a quarterly schedule. Your vault is opened for broader capital attraction with full marketing support.
Ongoing expectations: curators maintain read-only API visibility, meet the agreed reporting cadence (daily preferred), and operate within the risk limits documented during onboarding. Breaches of daily or weekly loss limits trigger the escalation procedures agreed in Step 3.
Get in Touch
Ready to apply? Fill in the Google form, reach out on Telegram, or email partnerships@neutral.trade with your track record details — we respond to every serious application.
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